VOLUME 23
ISSUE 1
Fall 2003

Inside this issue:

• ALL-SIS Business Meeting Minutes
• ALL-SIS Committee Rosters & Charges, 2003 - 2004
• ALL-SIS Seeks Nominations for Hicks and Outstanding Article Awards
• AALL Professional Development Listserv on the ABA 2003 Annual Questionnaire
• The Call for Papers Has Begun
• Member News
• A Sense of Humor and a Pro Se Patron
• The Trials and Tribulations of a Law Librarian
• Web Content and Redesign Task Force – An Update

 

Message from the Chair

Sally Wise
Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law
University of Miami Law Library
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, FL 333124-0247
(305) 284-2755
swise@law.miami.edu

Dear members of the ALL-SIS:

Committees, Task Forces and Projects:
It is hard to believe but the planning for the Boston meeting is well underway. We just finished setting up times for some of the committees, etc. to meet in Boston! Included in another part of the newsletter are the charges to the committees, etc., and a list of the members of each committee. Please take a few moments to see what the members of the section are working on this year. If you would like to join one of the groups, please let me know and if you have some thoughts and ideas for one of the groups, please contact the chair.

Boston Meeting:
As I mentioned, members of the SIS are already hard at work preparing for the Boston meeting. You will need to mark your calendar (or pda) for a number of events, but please circle Tuesday evening, July 13th, which is the day and time for our SIS reception at Harvard Law Library. Terry Martin, Librarian and Professor of Law, and the Law Library staff will be hosting the event and BNA will be sponsoring it. I am sure that it will be one of the highlights of the convention.

Communication:
I hope that you all are all members of the ALL-SIS listserv, because I will be updating you all through out the year using the list. If we find that there are a number of you not on the list, we will start a campaign to get everyone on to the list!

Also, please let me know if there is anything that I can do to further our programs and issues. (305) 284-2755 swise@law.miami.edu.

All for now
Sally

P.S. I just am curious about one thing. How many law libraries are mentioned in mystery stories? I have not done any investigation. But the University of Miami Law Library is mentioned in Last to Die and I was curious about others!